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File #: ORD 24-037    Name: Adopt an Ordinance for Survey Monument Preservation Fund Second Reading
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/15/2024 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: 12/3/2024 Final action: 12/3/2024
Title: Adopt an ordinance adding Chapter 5.65 to the Monterey County Code to establish a Survey Monument Preservation Fund to pay the necessary expenses incurred or authorized by the County Surveyor in retracing or re-monumenting major historical land division lines upon which later surveys are based. Proposed California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) Action: Find that the adoption of this ordinance is not a project pursuant to CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations section 15378(b)(5) because it is an organizational activity of government that will not result in a direct or indirect physical impact on the environment.
Attachments: 1. Board Report, 2. Attachment A - Ordinance, 3. Attachment B - 1987 Board Order, 4. Attachment C - CA Govt Code Sections, 5. Completed Board Order Item No. 92
Title
Adopt an ordinance adding Chapter 5.65 to the Monterey County Code to establish a Survey Monument Preservation Fund to pay the necessary expenses incurred or authorized by the County Surveyor in retracing or re-monumenting major historical land division lines upon which later surveys are based.

Proposed California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) Action: Find that the adoption of this ordinance is not a project pursuant to CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations section 15378(b)(5) because it is an organizational activity of government that will not result in a direct or indirect physical impact on the environment.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Find that the adoption of this ordinance is not a project pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines, California Code of Regulations (CCR) section 15378(b)(5) because it is an organizational activity of government that will not result in a direct or indirect physical impact on the environment.
b. Adopt an ordinance adding Chapter 5.65 to the Monterey County Code to establish a Survey Monument Preservation Fund to pay the necessary expenses incurred or authorized by the County Surveyor in retracing or re-monumenting major historical land division lines upon which later surveys are based.

SUMMARY:
Staff is presenting an ordinance (Attachment A) for consideration that would establish a Survey Monument Preservation Fund (Fund) pursuant to California Government Code Sections 27584 and 27585, and in accordance with Board of Supervisors Order, dated December 15, 1987, (Attachment B) directing the Department of Public Works, now Public Works, Facilities and Parks (PWFP), Office of the County Counsel and the County Recorder to prepare the necessary ordinance and procedures to implement the program. The purpose of this Fund is to pay the necessary expenses incurred or authorized by the County Surveyor in retracing or re-monumenting major...

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